Monday, January 4, 2010

Lost Writing Blues- Call for Story Sharing

I got a heartbreaking email today: while working on his novel, the S.O. walked away from his laptop in a library today to check some information on the internet. Laptop stolen. He only lost 2 chapters of his novel; the rest was backed up online. Unfortunately, he's now a struggling writer facing the cost of a new laptop.

This begs the latest blog question: Do you have a writing horror story? Computer crashed and you lost good work? Lost more than just a few chapters? Share in the comments section!

3 comments:

  1. Nice to find your lovely blog! I see we have a common interest in Chicago and food / eating, so thought I'd just say hi :)

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  2. Sorry to hear that.
    This isn't a disaster as much as an irritation: I wrote a ton of stuff in college on a Mac...which still works and reads the disks...but there's no way to transfer the data to more "modern" equipment. So I'd literally have to copy it all off the screen.

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  3. Arg! I have a number of old floppy or hard disks or whatever- I keep them because I'm afraid to dump them, but I don't know how I'd get anything off of them now either!

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